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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion


Thomas Hobbes

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MARCUS AURELIUS It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you a...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR This isn't a game that changes your opinion, but tells you why people have the opinion they do.
IAN BOGOST Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
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FEDERICO OPINION We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wir...
FEDERICO OPINION As some said, they might have been just playing around, but we will know that because they will be s...
FEDERICO OPINION The crater could only be done by a powerful explosive.
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say...
G.K. CHESTERTON Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think
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ALFRED AUSTIN I believe people have already formed an opinion. That opinion is based on the reporting and that opi...
ELLIOT WEINSTEIN Anyone else, in my opinion, is sort of eavesdropping on your information. I definitely think that's ...
BRADY SMITH The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT A person is getting along the road to wisdom when they begin to realize that their opinion is just a...
UNKNOWN Congress has taken her opinion -- and they know it's simply opinion -- and dressed it up as fact, an...
BRUCE HILER It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opin...
BRIAN COX nothing more than his personal opinion.
TONI ATKINS There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion
HENRY WARD BEECHER Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with bol...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and...
BOHDI SANDERS Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
BLAISE PASCAL Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opini...
VIKRAM AMAR In my private personal opinion, grace is the unconditional acceptance of ones surroundings and count...
MARK SHERMAN SMEESTER There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it
BERNIE KATZ It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human rac...
JOHN STUART MILL The City Council took the issue on when they asked for the opinion, and Dennis felt that they addres...
BILL KENNEDY I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without unde...
KATHERINE HEIGL They said they would make that decision on Monday, and I gave my opinion on that.
RICHARD CHILDRESS The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; po...
JOHN STUART MILL The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p...
JOHN STUART MILL No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT In my opinion, this gives Icelanders all the benefits ensuing from it, but they have no costs connec...
VACLAV KLAUS My opinion is that Lake Erie is better than it was, but not what we'd like it to be.
FRANK LICHTKOPPLER Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. B...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what the...
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS Everyone has an opinion and today the Internet allows everyone to express that opinion and it become...
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GOOSE GOSSAGE The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wh...
JOSEPH GRIMOND I just received a phone call regarding a "public opinion survey." I told them I had a poor opinion o...
E.R. ROCK No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
MICHAEL CRICHTON There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
JOHN STUART MILL In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what e...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Yes, speed is a concern for domestic public opinion polls and Iraqi public opinion, ... But they are...
LARRY DIAMOND The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they shoul...
GEORGE CLOONEY It is our opinion that it's unconstitutional, unrealistic and inhumane.
TISHA TALLMAN I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
JOAN BAEZ It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel...
LAURIE COLWIN There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which...
JOSEPH ADDISON Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable,...
SARGENT SHRIVER Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism wer...
JOSE MOURINHO Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 True it is that every man willingly f...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS À KEMPIS But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man...
JOHN STUART MILL Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no more biased opinion someone has for you than the one you have of yourself
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HAMID KARZAI Voice your opinion. It could make all the difference
SOTONYE ANGA What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO A fact can never be an opinion but an opinion can at times be a fact.
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) They have made monumental progress, in my opinion.
HUGH JONES My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak E...
MELANIA TRUMP What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Since it is an opinion poll and you're entitled to your opinion, there certainly is a possibility fo...
BOB BURDA It was a difference of opinion,
TERRELL OWENS They proved what they can do. So my opinion is useless. If every team had lost, does that mean those...
BILLY PACKER That was his opinion,
PETER KALIKOW A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things do...
G. K. CHESTERTON We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we wer...
JOHN STUART MILL A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the ot...
MARCEL PROUST It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
MARK TWAIN Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If, all the people approve of, I will go for a tattoo, thus spake a coward fearful of public opinion...
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IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
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